GDT: Devils @ Senators - 1:00 PM - MSG

[SteveCangialosi123]

I agree, but I think we're going to need another RHD next year. I'm not willing to gamble on Nemic being ready, and the only viable replacement in case of injury is Smith.

There isn’t a whole lot in FA, but Fitz has been a magic man with the defense, so I’ll trust he has a plan.

 

[Hisch13r]

The NHL should really suspend the idiots who hit and injure players who have nothing to do with the current play.

The hit was three seconds after Nico had anything to do with the puck!

The NHL should be WAY harder on suspensions in general. Tkachuk only getting 2 for what he did to Quick and then Anderson and Slafkovsky only getting 2 games for their egregious boardings were all awful rulings.

 

[Emperoreddy]

I was much more on the "we should keep Severson" train before we had Marino. Now I don't think there's any way to justify paying him what he'll likely get to be our #3 RD.

I mean before this year our RD depth didn't exist. But add Marino and you got high end kids in Nemec and Casey on the way and he simply doesn't fit.

 

[Whaddagoal]

Yes he is!

Ya. They just replaced his kidney.

Luckily his parts are all modular. The new one just snaps in place.

Thanks!

 

[Bleedred]

Lmao does anyone remember last season when he was acting like Mercer was better than them and it was gonna be obvious. Might’ve been when Hughes was coming back from injury.

Love Mercer but come on

Around the same time I remember Langenbrunner was a better player than Hischier too. Among some other questionable names that escape me. Maybe Madden? I f***ing hope not. Let's just hope I'm imagining that name.

I like Madden, but a lot of the old school fans overrate him cause he played on cup teams and was a ''Shutdown'' center. Zajac was considerably better, as was Devils Holik.

Madden was also no longer a good ''Shutdown'' center by 07-08 or probably even 06-07. Maddolfo were getting torched by top lines by 2007, maybe even 2006. Madden did have that sweet 20 goal season in 07-08, but he was merely a poor man's Zajac. Zajac's number would be retired here if he won those two cups.

I definitely remember Langenbrunner and maybe even Gionta supposedly being better than Nico. Gionta was just making his NHL debut when he was the age Nico was last season.

 

[Blackjack]

Around the same time I remember Langenbrunner was a better player than Hischier too. Among some other questionable names that escape me. Maybe Madden? I f***ing hope not. Let's just hope I'm imagining that name.

I like Madden, but a lot of the old school fans overrate him cause he played on cup teams and was a ''Shutdown'' center. Zajac was considerably better, as was Devils Holik.

Madden was also no longer a good ''Shutdown'' center by 07-08 or probably even 06-07. Maddolfo were getting torched by top lines by 2007, maybe even 2006. Madden did have that sweet 20 goal season in 07-08, but he was merely a poor man's Zajac. Zajac's number would be retired here if he won those two cups.

I definitely remember Langenbrunner and maybe even Gionta supposedly being better than Nico. Gionta was just making his NHL debut when he was the age Nico was last season.

ehh, '03 Madden was exceptional, I think he did legitimately build that shutdown center rep, even if he couldn't maintain it later in his career.

 

[bossram]

The NHL should be WAY harder on suspensions in general. Tkachuk only getting 2 for what he did to Quick and then Anderson and Slafkovsky only getting 2 games for their egregiously boardings were all awful rulings.

This is unfortunately how the NHL wants it though. That's why the league booted Shanahan, the only one ever to do a semi-competent job. Now DOPS is run by a complete neanderthal in Parros, just how the NHL likes.

 

[Bleedred]

ehh, '03 Madden was exceptional, I think he did legitimately build that shutdown center rep, even if he couldn't maintain it later in his career.

You're right.

03 he was great. He did replace Holik for a couple years there, but it didn't last much longer after the lockout.

John Madden was also a lot older than he seemed, as he was 26 in his rookie year. He was only 2 years younger than Holik was.

So it wasn't really shocking that he fell off in 06 or 07 at 33 years old. It was kind of easy to forget that he was 33 by that point or even in his 30's at all.

I thought Pandolfo was carried by him. Pandolfo broke down first and I guess Lou's lucky wheel landed on him as he got the extension/gold watch contract while Madden's expired the next year and he walked.

 

[TheUnseenHand]

I just realized on the disallowed goal if Dougie lets it go there are two Devils there ready to slam it in the open net lol

 

[Hisch13r]

I don't think our PP did shit like this once under Recchi

 

[Richer's Ghost]

I don't think our PP did shit like this once under Recchi

Not even close. It was slow around the horn then get picked off and give up a SHG more often than anything. These guys are moving in and out of a 1-3-1 going on a rotation and yo-yoing back and forth within their mini zones to pull the PK out of position until there's a nice seam pass or shot. I love the flow and speed of this PP so much it just makes me even more angry that we stuck with that crap for so long last year. Why did they stick with the same BS for so long? The players are almost identical... tells you a lot about the coaching.

 

[Hisch13r]

Not even close. It was slow around the horn then get picked off and give up a SHG more often than anything. These guys are moving in and out of a 1-3-1 going on a rotation and yo-yoing back and forth within their mini zones to pull the PK out of position until there's a nice seam pass or shot. I love the flow and speed of this PP so much it just makes me even more angry that we stuck with that crap for so long last year. Why did they stick with the same BS for so long? The players are almost identical... tells you a lot about the coaching.

We also actually move the puck to the slot now. Under Recchi I swear it just moved between up top to the flanks. That pass by Bratt to Nico in the slot for a one timer is something we never did. The play Haula scored on where Zetterlund bumped it to Haula at the top of the circle/high slot is something I see used around the league that we never used under Recchi and have done quite a bit this year

 

[Richer's Ghost]

We also actually move the puck to the slot now. Under Recchi I swear it just moved between up top to the flanks. That pass by Bratt to Nico in the slot for a one timer is something we never did. The play Haula scored on where Zetterlund bumped it to Haula at the top of the circle/high slot is something I see used around the league that we never used under Recchi and have done quite a bit this year

Yep - and not just for the shot - pass into the slot and back out to collapse the top of the box and give the seams even more room. I swear everyone knows where they're going with the puck now before they get it rather than figure out who's open after they have the puck.

 

[markog]

So on monday the mighty Oilers are visiting bunch of Jespers.

 

[Nico13]

Another lucky win. Nothing to see here.

 

[Jack Be Quick]

Who else is really, really glad that we didn't waive him and try to send him to Utica after preseason?

During the Calder playoffs last year I called him the perfect solution for our 3rd line.

I'm pretty thrilled I was wrong about that.

 

[Whaddagoal]

Good morning fellow fans!

 

[swiiscompos]

During the Calder playoffs last year I called him the perfect solution for our 3rd line.

I'm pretty thrilled I was wrong about that.

How is that wrong? The third line is indeed playing pretty well with him.

 

[Blender]

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

How is that wrong? The third line is indeed playing pretty well with him.

I think he’s saying that Zetterlund is actually playing amazing on a top 6 line, not the 3rd. Unless this was a Nico 3C joke lol.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

Talk about a cheap shot. That hardly does it Justice. There’s not even a play going on. He just skated up to a player well away from the puck and who has his back turned, and assaults him with his stick.

How does the league not suspend and fine him for this? They can’t let this go. I don’t know what Watson’s prior record is, but this is 10 games or more for me. Premeditated attempt to injure a guy who has his back turned and it’s not in the flow of the play at all or heat of the moment. There’s no place in the game for this.

I can only imagine what the league would do if it was McDavid on the receiving end of this.

Really I am astonished. I’ve been watching hockey a long time and this is about as bad as anything I’ve ever seen. Maybe Brad Marchand has done stuff like this a couple times? They should not let this go.


It was so away from and behind the play I don’t think they saw it.

The Marchand elbow on Johansson was worse and I’m pretty sure he only got 5 games even with his history. NHL discipline is a crapshoot/joke.

 

[NJDevs26]

Eh 13:31 ATOI is more third line than second line, especially given he plays on the PP. But yes he's shown the celling to someday be more than an elite third-liner and I knew the panic here over him potentially being cut was nonsense, I was annoyed enough he wasn't playing early. Like someone else pointed out the takeoff kinda started when he did finally get back in the lineup.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

To the NHL this is a sneaky good play by a wiley veteran. Weekes even alluded to the play as such, as did the crew at intermission.

That was cringey as hell hearing him talk about it like that.

 

[Cheddabombs]

Morning folks! What a win!

(weekend edition)

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

Eh 13:31 ATOI is more third line than second line, especially given he plays on the PP. But yes he's shown the celling to someday be more than an elite third-liner and I knew the panic here over him potentially being cut was nonsense, I was annoyed enough he wasn't playing early. Like someone else pointed out the takeoff kinda started when he did finally get back in the lineup.

He’s playing with Nico, that isn’t the third line. We only have 3 wings averaging more even strength TOI.